i've been running to work for well-nigh 8 months in a country where it rains practically every day and NOT ONCE have i run to work or home in the rain. seriously, it'll be torrential for five hours whilst i'm at my desk but come quittin' time... poof. i'm so overdue to get rained on that i'm expecting to run home on a sunny day and to have an alhambra water truck run me over.
and no, they don't have the 'alhambra' brand here.
speaking of running, the comrades is in only four or five months. so i've started to get serious, i.e. running on saturdays for distances greater than my three or four km to work. this last saturday, my coworker grant invited me over to help him extend the land for his horse stables at his house in hilton. in order to get my run in and help him out, i decided to combine the two and run to his house... 14 kilometers away. running tip: when running across town make sure your destination isn't called 'hilton' a derivative of the words "hill and town".unless you're starting from somewhere called 'upper hilton'.
the map included shows a green line indicating my run to grant's and claire's. my usual run to work starts on the right and ending at the "t" in the "Pietermaritzburg". it has its ups and downs but starting at the "P" in "Pietermaritzburg", it's ALL UPHILL. steep enough that bicyclists come down it at around 50-60 kph.
Nice "Logan's Run" reference, you just don't see many of those any more.
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